A census enumerator has to know more than just how to count — she has to be a bit of a diplomat, too. Some people just don't like to stand up and be counted. Take it from Edward S. Zelazo, district ...

Lawmakers are pressing the Census Bureau's decision to ditch a pilot program to test postal workers as enumerators in the 2020 population count. Lawmakers are pressing the Census Bureau on its ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- If you haven't filled out the census, expect a knock on your door soon. Starting Aug. 11, census takers will begin visiting the homes of people who have not filled out the ...

Neither wind nor rain nor flagpole-sitters stopped most of the nation’s 140,000 census enumerators last week, but the biggest nosecount in U.S. history was not without its moments of travail. Nearly ...

As the 2020 Census gets underway, take a look back at images and facts from the past century. All images via the U.S. Census Bureau. In 1870, over 6,500 marshals and assistants counted the U.S.

Dubai: Residents should not be wary of giving information to enumerators conducting census (Tedad 2005), said a senior government official. "Our enumerators do not ask for visas, passport copy or any ...

Census taker Linda Rothfield’s government-issued iPhone kept directing her back to apartments in San Francisco that she already knew were vacant. When she did find apartments that were occupied, she ...

There were 3,929,214 people (including slaves, but not untaxed Indians) in the U.S. in 1790, when Thomas Jefferson ran off the first census. Seventeen censuses later, the U.S. population figures to ...

Michael Lathrop, 58, a census taker in Kingsport, Tennessee, was bitten by a pit bull in August while on the job. "That dog had lost its mind," said Lathrop, who was bitten on his right thigh while ...